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SYNOPSIS OF THE SPECIES 



OF THE 



CLASS REPTILIA. 



By J. E. Gray, Esq. F.G.S., 8ec. &c. 



N.B. — In the following List those species alone are included, 

 which have either been seen* hy the author, or which have 

 been well figured or described. 



REPTILES. 



Vertebrated animals, respiring by lungs, having warm red 

 blood, heart with one ventricle and two auricles and the 

 skin covered with scales. 



* In forming this list, the collection of reptiles of the British Museum, 

 the College of Surgeons, and of Mr. Bell, in London, of the Gardens of 

 Plants and Ecole de Medicine at Paris, of the Royal Museum of Leyden 

 and Berlin, and the Free Town of Francfort, have been studied with at- 

 tention through the kindness of their several keepers. — J. E. Gray, 

 Oct. 1830. 



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